On 30 Nov 2012, at 18:59, Dave Fernandes <dave.fernan...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > On 2012-11-30, at 6:42 AM, Mike Abdullah <cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net> wrote: > >> One way to look at it is that NSPersistentDocument pretty much painted >> itself into a corner from day 1, and it's too messy for Apple to untangle >> that. > > Can you elaborate? Well it makes the assumptions that your document: - is comprised of a single Core Data store - has a single managed object context - works entirely on the main thread - only ever saves on top of itself, or to a new location using "Save As" I wonder if there's simply too much fragility in the existing subclasses that people have shipped, which make it a royal pain to try and modernise. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com